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Addendum to the testimony of Mr. Lambie from the
transcript of testimony given at a public meeting before the
Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors at the Miner’s Inn
Convention Center on March 25, 2008. Mr. Lambie is from E-Pur,
LLC.
SUPERVISOR OVERMAN: Thank you.
7 And the last question I have is from Scott
8 Murphy of the Farm Bureau. And he asks, or he makes a
9 comment, that there will be so much sediment that has to
10 be hauled out, that it will take four million dump truck
11 loads of material to remove it, and where is this
12 material going to go? Anybody have any --
13 MR. LAMBIE: That sounds like mine. I
14 recommend against using dump trucks. The river will
15 take it out to the ocean at a rate we can predetermine
16 by how you take down the dams, if you take down the
17 dams.
18 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: What's that going to do
19 to the fish?
20 MR. LAMBIE: There's a lot of science to that.
21 The sediment studies done by the folks that like to take
22 down the dam seem to be estimating they will release
23 sediment at one to two percent loadings into the stream.
24 There's certainly evidence that fish die at that level
25 of sediment in the water, they seem to be targeted as
1 high as ten percent sediment by weight, and that will
2 certainly have a certain fish mortality rate. Again,
3 how you do it will have an impact how the fish survive
4 the process; There" s dif£erent schools of thought on
5 that. But there's --there would be a lot of work to
6 do. That's why I say the simple thing to do is analyze
7 it properly before you engage in what you're going to
8 do.